Daily christian Quotations.

Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to capture men from the devil's clutches and the very jaws of Hell. This can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered devotion, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Lord Jesus Christ.

It would have been easy for God to show us the plan for this period, as He had it all fixed up...But then again we would not have learned that most valuable lesson, so He left us in the dark and gave us only one thing at a time.

In Proverbs we read: "He that winneth souls is wise."
If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure.
He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.

Mould us, great God, into forms of beauty and usefulness by the wheel of Providence and by the touch of Thy hand.
Fulfil Thine ideal, and conform us to the image of Thy Son.
In Thy great house may we stand as vessels meet for Thy use.
We are little better than common earthenware, but may we be cleansed, and purified, and filled with Thy heavenly treasure.
Dip us deep into the River of Life, and give refreshment by us to many parched and weary hearts.

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over.
God is going to invade, all right; but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else comes crashing in?
This time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side.
That will not be the time for choosing; It will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not.
Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side.

One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there's always so much more to know, so much more to discover.
Just when we least expect it,
He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.

The Christian communities in which we live play a vital role in the business of forgiveness.
No matter what the Bible says, and no matter what the bishop pronounces, it is the community that forgives the sinner and receives him or her back into fellowship or 'retains the sin' and closes the door on the sinner.
The gospel story of the raising of Lazarus has some application here (John 11:1-44).
Jesus brought Lazarus back to life, but it was the community that was given the job of unbinding him.
You may want to reflect on the life of the community in which you live.
Is it a forgiving, reconciling community which will receive back the individual who has missed the mark?
How could your community be more forgiving?
More loving?
More an instrument of reconciliation?

"God has not given us a spirit of fear," (2 Tim. 1:7 NKJV).
Tormenting, debilitating fears are not from the Lord.
Paul continues by saying that the nature of the Holy Spirit abiding in us produces a spirit "of power and of love and of a sound mind."
This means that our feelings of helplessness are not from God.
We can be assured that, whenever our minds become darkened through self-condemnation, fear or tormenting guilt, we are living outside the realm of God'?s "love," for God's perfect love "casts out fear" (1 John 4:18).